Canada's sons and Great Britain in the World War : a complete and authentic history of the commanding part played by Canada and the British Empire in the world's greatest war
Canada's sons and Great Britain in the World War : a complete and authentic history of the commanding part played by Canada and the British Empire in the world's greatest war
Reviewer:Margaret Ross
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April 6, 2017 Subject:
Honour their sacrifice: end war and suffering
The 100th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge approaching (April 9-12, 2017), I found myself thumbing through my great-uncle's copy of Col George
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G Nasmith, CMG. 1919. Canada' Sons and Great Britain in the World War: a complete and authentic history of the commanding part played by Canada and the British Empire in the World's Greatest War. Toronto: The John C. Winston Co., Limited. https://archive.org/details/canadassonsgreat02nasmuoft Dad treasured the book when it came into his hands. The last living WW1 Cdn recipient of the Victoria Cross, C.S. Rutherford, autographed it in 1963. Written in 1919, the account is of course replete with victorious denunciations of Huns, Turks, and other "inferior" races. A more polite example: "(Vimy Ridge, taken against all odds) confirmed the conviction of those who before the war believed that the individuality of a peaceful population, strengthened and developed by loyalty, was better fighting material than a military ridden country could ever produce." America received its due as well: "Billions of dollars for war purposes were voted without opposition; increased taxation was met with cheerfulness, and huge war loans were raised by the Government from the investment of the public in war bonds." Thousands of Americans came north to join the Canadian army early in the war: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-history-of-the-thousands-of-americans-who-came-north-to-fight-in-the-great-war?google_editors_picks=true Still, "When the United States entered the war the Government expected all kinds of lawlessness and crime on the part of the alien enemies and their spies, but they did not occur. The Internment Act was enforced with the utmost severity and proved the great power in stamping out German activity. It regulated the conduct of every alien enemy in the country and protected the entire seaboard from the Gulf of Mexico to Vancouver. It required all alien enemies who were not interned to obtain photographic passes, and in all, 900,000 of these documents were issued. The law worked with such perfection that immediately an alien enemy showed himself at any port in the United States he was placed under arrest and promptly interned. strangely enough it was the civil power that protected the army bases." The accounts of individual valour in the mud and blood of WW1 make for sad reading, but even more so the realization that young men's sacrifice a hundred years ago did not end war...
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